slicing a big list into smaller lists based on a search string

On 20 Feb 2007, at 03:49, David Beaudry wrote:
>
> Let's say I have a big long message like so:
>
> hippo lion 4 ant 2.3 tiger 0.3
> rabbit "happy birthday" 33 0.5
>
> I want to take the big list and break it up into 3 chunks:
> hippo lion 4 ant 2.3
> tiger 0.3
> rabbit "happy birthday" 33 0.5
>
> ...based on the appearance of in the list. I can't use
> unpack or iter since I don't know for certain the length or type of
> values that will follow . In other 3rd party options I've
> been able to find, seems like you need to know the length of the
> message you want to generate (e.g. slicelist), or parses in a way
> that won't really work for this application (e.g. Lchunk). Any
> suggestions on how to tackle this?

hi david,
seems a little awkward to do in max, although you could 'force'
Lchunk to work for your situation (see patch below).
but if you really need this output format, i would probably pull out
some text-based solution.
a simple javascript function could look like this (hopefully the code
turns up correctly):

/********** start script ************/

var keyword = "";

function parse() {
    var a = arrayfromargs(arguments);
    var b = new Array();
    for(i=0; i
        if( a[i] == keyword ) {
            outlet(0, b);
            b = new Array();
            b.push(keyword);
        }
        else
            b.push(a[i]);
    }
    outlet(0, b);
}

/*********** end script ************/

hope that helps.
volker

/**** a patch using Lchunk *****/